Re: spoon-discuss: Ballot?

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth "Harrison, Andrew":
> <grin> I was just joking. We have had coverage of the US election over here,
> although I guess it's not quite as fever-pitch as you've got it. I hadn't
> really been following it but I'd gathered it all hangs on a few hundres
> votes in Florida. I'd heard something about it not being 100% settled till
> January, so what happens then?

Though the electors are sworn to vote for their candidate, there's nothing 
stopping them from changing their votes. Though this virtually never 
happens, it's thought to be more likely when the candidate who won the 
popular vote didn't also win sufficient states to win the electoral vote. 
So, it's remotely possible for Bush to have more electors sworn to vote for 
him in the electoral college, yet for enough of them to cast votes for Gore 
so that he'd be president instead.

> The Kid
> 
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